When you see the title you probably thought "what the heck" so I'll explain.

After tinkering a bit and opening up my PS2 so I could do hot swaps, I accidentally broke the sensor switch, basically my PS2 believes that the lid is always open, not only that but selecting DISC CONTROL:ON in uLE locks it up.

Hopefully someone would consider this, hopefully it wouldn't be that hard of a task. Basically what I'm saying is, is that scummvm no longer works from USB, and when I make an ISO image of scummvm (tested and working on pcsx2) and tried it in OPL and ESDL it gets stuck on the hourglass-like loading screen.

Last edited by 47iscool on Thu May 15, 2014 4:57 pm; edited 1 time in total

Thu May 15, 2014 4:42 am

digitallScummVM Developer

Joined: 02 Aug 2012
Posts: 811

I'm not the PS2 porter, but I doubt we would want to try to fix this kind of hardware issue in software.

A quick Google shows a number of tutorials on fixing or bypassing the PS2 lid switches (Sony actually put 2 on the unit). If you are capable enough to open your PS2 and tinker with the internals, you should be perfectly capable of repairing this.

Thu May 15, 2014 10:51 am

47iscool

Joined: 12 May 2014
Posts: 48
Location: United States

quote:Originally posted by digitallI'm not the PS2 porter, but I doubt we would want to try to fix this kind of hardware issue in software.

A quick Google shows a number of tutorials on fixing or bypassing the PS2 lid switches (Sony actually put 2 on the unit). If you are capable enough to open your PS2 and tinker with the internals, you should be perfectly capable of repairing this.

Well I would, but I can't now. The power button has been taped as it is also loose and if I opened it back up I may not be able to fix the LED switch again.

Thanks for replying and trying to help though.

Thu May 15, 2014 7:20 pm

digitallScummVM Developer

Joined: 02 Aug 2012
Posts: 811

Not sure where you are in the world... but EBay lists replacement PS2 power switch / eject PCBs with the plastic buttons and ribbon cables for less than 5 USD.

Thu May 15, 2014 10:50 pm

md5ScummVM Developer

Joined: 03 Nov 2005
Posts: 2256
Location: Athens, Greece

You seem to have borked your console. Bear in mind that you can buy a PS2 console for around 30 eur nowadays, which is probably your best option: